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Friday, February 22, 2013

Do-It-Herself Workshop (and giveaway!)

Hey all! I am so glad it’s Friday!! We had some ice accumulation here last night and I was hoping for a snow day for the kiddo, but we made due with a delay (and sleeping in). ;) I cannot wait for a weekend of relaxing and puttering around!
Last night I was honored to co-lead the Do-It-Herself workshop at a local Home Depot and let me tell you, I was SO impressed with how they put it together! The set up was just adorable – since this month’s project was Pinterest-inspired, they pulled ideas from there to create some fun vignettes.
This was a DIY workshop, and I will get to that more in a minute, but just loved how cute the set up was so I have to brag on them for that first. They pulled out their stock of outdoor furniture for the audience so it was comfy and colorful:
Brilliant idea!
The sign-in booth was just so cute – everything was made from pallets and wood they had at the store (hellooo Pinterest!!):
Don’t you love the pennants they made from scrapbook paper?
They had super cute bags with goodies for each attendee too:
I don’t know if you can see my apron there, but one of the staff members painted mine just for me and it is SO CUTE. She used colors from my blog and it is precious – I love it.
OK, I know I should be talking about the DIY, but the food table was amazing too:
More pennants, more pallet tables, and I LOVED the idea of lining the barrels with lawn bags and using them for the beverages. Seriously? So fun!
The workshop leader Janice did a great job of sharing the process of tiling a frame around a mirror. They had smaller ones there for people to try out, but this is a great idea for those basic builder mirrors so many of us have hanging in our bathrooms too.
These were my favorites of the night:
I was obsessed with that smaller one with the small tiles – it had such a pretty beachy vibe.
Janice shared a tip she uses for smaller projects like this that I would never have thought to do. She just puts on gloves and then smooshes the grout in between the tiles with her hands. Loved that – it’s messy no matter how you do it but that makes it even easier!
I think my favorite “tool” of the whole project was the tile setting mat – it’s just sticky stuff you put down instead of mortar. Way less mess and so much easier! (I’m Vanna Whiting it here):
I’m planning on using it in the laundry room so I’ll let you know how it works.
The ladies (and some gentleman) got to shop for their own materials as well – they had some beautiful mosaic tiles to pick from:
I found a perfect one for the basement bathroom, now I just need to decide where to put it. :)
It was a fun night and we had a great turn out, especially with the weather we had coming in. Hope everyone got home safe and sound!
Thanks to Janice for leading the workshop and Celeste for her help along the way and beautiful ideas for the set up:
Don’t forget – the workshops are offered every month on the third Thursday and are free to attend. Next month is how to install dimmers – one of my very favorite things to do in our house. It would be great to see how to do it first hand if you haven’t done one yourself. (Go here to find out more.)
It was an honor to work with everyone from Home Depot this month! To celebrate, they are giving me a $100 HD gift card to give away to one of you!

Here’s how to enter to win $100 to the Home Depot!:
1. Leave a comment here. That was easy. :) What home project would you tackle with the help of this gift card? I can think of a few. Or ten.
2. If you attended the workshop and tried out this project on your own, pin a picture of yours with the hash tag #DIHWorkshop and then comment here with a link to that. (This giveaway will be open till the 28th so you’ve got time!)
* You can enter one or two times – it’s up to you! All options are not mandatory to win – they’re just extra chances. :)
* Remember if you comment anonymously or you have a private blog, please include your email address in each entry, and spell it out with “at” and “dot” to avoid any spammy emails coming your way.
This giveaway is open to the contiguous US only. It will be close Thursday, February 28, at 9 a.m. EST.

My kids are moving out early next month. I will have an empty nest :( I am planning on making one of the bedrooms into an office and the card would help soooo much! Love your blog and thanks for the inspiration!

Aww, I wish I was closer to have attended! This gift card would be awesome--hubs installed laminate flooring in our basement last year but we still need to add baseboards and molding around the doors. This would help out a bunch!

I'd be hard to pick which project I'd start with! Maybe an end table I found the plans to online, or a sofa table, or maybe painting my son's new "big boy" room I'm planning! Decisions, decisions! Thanks for the chance!

With a $100 Home Depot card I would purchase paint for my bedroom and finally after 5 years paint over my multi colored walls. Years ago I was in the process of deciding what color I wanted to paint our walls and slapped 2 different colors on them on top of the existing color. Then I had back to back pregnancies and priorities changed and 5 years later I still have 3 colors on my walls. It's not very relaxing to be in my bedroom. I enjoy following you on Facebook and thank you for the chance to win this card.

Oh my oh my. I would use it to build a "built in" shelving unit in our second bedroom. Its a "girl friday" kind of room that right now is used for:-guest bedroom-storage room-music room-salon (my hair cutting chair is in there)and in the near future we are planning on having it be a nursery.

I would use the gift card to go towards the purchase of bathroom vent fans. I know it sounds lame, but we've been needing these for 2 years and just been so focused on debt reduction we haven't gotten to that project.

Oh, my...we have a built-in that needs painting, a light on the stairs that needs replacing, painting all the downstairs doors, replacing the light fixture in the hallway, re-tiling the powder room...What? You only said $100? I thought you said $1000! I am waaayyyyy over budget, as usual. But I would certainly put that card to good use! "Luuuuuurrrvvvee" your blog! ;-)

I've been dying to DIY a storage bench in the playroom... I also need to replace the front porch light - I just learned how to replace light fixtures this week, and did the one in our kitchen!!!! pattysprettythings AT sbcglobal DOT net

I have loved the do it herself workshops that I have managed to attend. I need to add them to my calendar so I remember to attend. I think I would put the gift card to use on molding in my house. I have some baseboard molding and crown in various rooms I would like to tackle. Thanks for the opportunity to win!.

This gift card would come in SOOOOOO handy right now. Daughter's wedding is coming up in April and both my bathrooms are getting make overs.... already got new sink, vanity, conection kit for bathroom but need to do some tile work so that's where this $100 would go! Please, pick me oh DIY gods.... Thanks for the chance!

I would get tile to put beneath our front and back doors. For some reason, the builder ran the carpet right up to both doors, and it gets NASTY! We are working on paying off medical debt right now, so we can't afford to replace all the carpet yet, but we will someday! I love the tile you used in the laundry room. We might eventually tile our bathroom floors with that. Love your blog! catchincurlz {at} aol {dot} com

Our family is moving this summer - so I don't even know what our projects at the new house will be yet - but I'm sure there will be many DIY projects to make good use of that wonderful Home Depot gift card. :)

Wowza, great giveaway! I wish you could be around for some of the HD Workshops in my area! This gift card would be amazing to win; we still have a planking project ahead of us. Planking the fireplace wall (and possibly tile the hearth) would be really well subsidized with such a gift card! Love your blog, Sarah!

And, I am living in the US (the server stands in Germany though), and my email is puppe at verizon dot com

Oh Wow! I think that is so cool they did that for everyone! What a great set up. I gotta check out our Home Depot to see if they have anything like that going on. How fun!And my kitchen, well yea. My kitchen.I started on it 7, yes SEVEN years ago, and did not finish. Yes, I am very ashamed. ha!

I have a list of 23 (gadzillion) things I would do, but priority is painting the curtains I've already taped off in a chevron pattern or painting the baby's room since those are more time sensitive projects. Thanks!

I would definitely use the gift card towards a Kreg Jig. Its been on the wish list for a year and a half now and I would love to get one to use to build a new coffee table and some nightstands. And a desk for my husband.

We have baby on the way (our first) and I have a baby gate pinned for the hubby to make. We're also restoring a vintage dresser that we are using as her changing table and my old rocking chair I had as a child. Thanks for the giveaway! mfrapp_83 {at} yahoo {dot} com

I have about a million projects waiting in the wings. I would probably use it towards upstairs flooring - our carpet is yucky! I didn't know the workshops were free - learn something new everyday I tell ya! I'm gonna go to one :)christenandsteveATsbcglobalDOTnet

I wanted to attend this workshop so bad I had it written on my calender & highlighted but...things got hectic around here & I missed it :( such is my life I guess. But still going to try my hand at it. I am a mirror fanatic too! If I won the gift card I am dying to try to make a replica plant stand I have that is falling apart made from wood & looks (or maybe it is since it's falling apart) antique.

I would paint! We rent an older home and the owners didn't paint before we moved in. We didn't have much of a choice b/c it was the cheapest/nicest place we could find that would accept pets so we snatched it up without thinking. Now a few months into looking at the scratched up stairwell and walls has finally gotten to me. I could really use this!

We have a million home projects to do. I would probably spend it on paint though. We have been in our house 2.5 years and we still have rooms that need painting. My husband had also been working on painting all out trim white, so that requires a lot of paint too.

We need to put a backsplash up in our kitchen so I would LOVE to use it for that... but we're probably doing it this weekend. So the next project will either be our laundry room or bedroom... so I could use paint and organization things! Thanks for the chance!

I would probably paint our main bathroom. We moved into our house a little over a month ago and are slowly making it our own and I think that would for sure help :)kiki(underscore)745(at)hotmail(dot)com

I would like use it to tile my back splash. I have procrastinating tiling somehow I find the whole process little difficult. With tile setting mat, I would definitely want to try this out.Thanks for the give away

This is a blessing to whoever wins. I can think of tons of things to do ... Would use the card to work on our back patio (paint) etc.. This is where I shop and I am a HUGE fan of theirs and NO matter what I would get from there ..IT would be put to great use.. Thanks for posting this ...Fingers crossed !!! . therustypearl@yahoo.com ....... Sherry

everytime i see a pin on pinterest about putting the tiles around a builder mirror, i think "gosh, i could get my husband to do it..." but huh. i could really do it myself. i'm handy. and with $100, i COULD do it... no finagling the budget to come up with extra cash!

The gift card would really come in handy as we are finally in our last stages of renovating our home. We just fixed a roof leak we found when redoing our fireplace. Now we have to put it all back together (again)!

Sheesh! We have so many projects we could tackle around here. I think I'd use it to replace the builder grade brass ceiling lights in our house. We seem to have a plethora and they've really begin to annoy me. They're so bad, not even spray paint would help them. Thanks for the giveaway!

Boy I sure could use a $100 gift card from Home Depot. I could think of a bazillion projects I could use it for. Paint for the living room and dining room or new bamboo or roman shades for those rooms. Could use some new lamps shades too. Hope I win! Thanks for the chance to enter.

Home Depot has the cabinet hardware I want to beautify my dressers and bedside tables in my bedroom. Problem is I need 36 of them which comes out to just under $100. I'm focusing on our bedroom this year since both of our girls' rooms are done and it would help me get it one more step closer to completion. Then again $100 at home depot would be great to use toward paint. We only use the paint from Home Depot.

I would love $100 for a bathroom redo we are working on. We desperately need a new vanity countertop. Ours is pink! In the meantime, I have a builder grade unframed mirror that I can't wait to frame with tile.

That gift card would be helpful for SO many projects! We are currently renovating our 'laundry room' (previously a room with a washer, dryer & one wire shelf). After that is our office/library...currently filled with 'leftover' furniture to set the computer, printer, etc. on...SO not pretty. Then there's the sunroom...the list goes on!

I am planning on attending the light dimmer do-it-herself workshop. Looking forward to it. I think it I would use the gift card for my boys' bathroom. In desperate need of tile to replace the torn linoleum. Thanks so much!

Ooo pick me pick me! I can think of a bunch of things to do, but I love the idea of using the small glass tiles on the giant builder mirror in the girls bathroom. It's so...plain and dull, a tile border would really spice it up.

We just bought our first home in November, so I can think of many things I could us it on BUT the two that would be a toss up would be either a matching, towel rod, hand towel ring set (husband currently hangs his towel over the shower doors. I hate that) OR a garage door opener, so I can finally park the car in the garage. :)

I want to add trim around our bathroom mirrors and replace the towel rods with hooks to make it easier for my kiddos to take care of their towels... then maybe paint my laundry room! oddmoose33(at)hotmail(dot)com